Technical Director of the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute
Position:
Con to the question "Do electronic voting machines improve the voting process?"
Reasoning:
"The [paperless electronic voting system] is far below even the most minimal security standards applicable in other contexts...We conclude that this voting system is unsuitable for use in a general election."
Experts
Election officials, people with post-graduate degrees in a computer or political science, JD's, Members of Congress, or elected officials with significant involvement in, or related to, electronic voting machine issues.
Involvement and Affiliations:
Technical Director, Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute, 2003-present
Professor, Johns Hopkins University Department of Computer Science, 2003-present
Director - A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable, and Transparent Elections (ACCURATE); National Science Foundation
Member, Security Peer Review Group of the Federal Voting Assistance Program's Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE) Project, 2003-2004
Director of the Board, USENIX Organization, 2000-2004
Freedom of Expression Award for Best Circumvention of Censorship, Index on Censorship, 2001
National Science Foundation Fellowship, 1992
Served on Editorial Board of 10 publications
Education:
PhD, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, 1994
MSE, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, 1991
BS, Computer Science, University of Michigan, 1989
Cowritten with D. Jefferson, B. Simons, D. Wagner, "Analyzing Internet Voting Security," Communications of the ACM, 2004
Cowritten with T. Kohno, A. Stubblefield, and D. Wallach, "Analysis of an Electronic Voting System," Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute Technical Report TR-2003-19, July 23, 2003
"Security Considerations for Remote Electronic Voting," Communications of the ACM, 2002
Other:
Author of 7 books or chapters in books, 17 peer-reviewed journal publications, and 29 peer-reviewed conference publications.
